How to collect ivan tea
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You can get Ivan-tea for the whole winter in just 20-30 minutes. We share the secrets of how to quickly collect Ivan tea and which one to choose for the most delicious drink.
When to collect Ivan tea
Collection time is from morning to noon in dry weather. The most color of Ivan tea is in late June and early July. The moon should be young and growing, ideally in Scorpio when all the vegetation is full of strength.
Where to collect Ivan tea
Ivan tea grows literally everywhere - whole fields and edges are covered with this plant. In almost any ecologically clean forest, you can pick up countless quantities of willow tea. The most delicious grows in peat bogs, but beginners are advised to start with fields where you can see willow tea from afar.
How is the collection process organized
1. Keep an eye on plants for flowers - there should be delicate, but blossoming flowers. Examine the plants - the leaves should not be rough, about 10 centimeters long, not damaged. Thin young leaves work best.
2. Collect medium juicy leaves, capsules and lower coarse leaves from a twig - do not take. How to collect: press the stem with your thumb against your palm and drag downward, pulling the leaves down. It is better to wield gloves, because you can rub your palm on the stems of Ivan tea.
3. When you have collected as much as enough - the process is over. A large bag can be assembled in 2 hours from 10 am to 12 am.
4. When there are a lot of leaves, they are slightly crushed, when there are a lot of leaves, they put the willow tea in plastic bags.
How to collect ivan tea inflorescences
Rake a few young flowers from the plant, leaving the top and not damaging the leaves and stem of the plant. The inflorescences must be collected in separate bags, since their processing is completely different than that of the leaves.
Collection inventory
1. Light clothes, better not light ones. ivan-chai dyes clothes.
2. A container in which to collect plants - take a plastic bottle of 5 liters, cut off the bottom, turn it over - and hang it around the neck.
3. Plastic bags in which to carry the collected to the place of processing.
4. Klondike from the sun.
If ivan tea clogs up the area
This is the easiest way, since you just need to mow all the willow tea - and then it remains to remove the leaves and inflorescences from it without a trace.
Author / Editor - Lydia Ivanova
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